Re: Inconsistent capabilites associated with MPOL_MOVE_ALL

Michael Kerrisk
2006-03-15T01:07:57Z

> Von: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Use CAP_SYS_NICE for controlling migration permissions.
> > > ahem. Kind of eleventh-hour. Are we really sure?
> >
> > This may still get into 2.6.16???
>
> Well it changes the userspace API.

No -- both of these changes affect interfaces
that are only part of the unreleased 2.6.16.
(MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL is new in 2.6.16.)

Cheers,

Michael

--
Michael Kerrisk
maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

Want to help with man page maintenance?
Grab the latest tarball at
ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages/,
read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source
files for 'FIXME'.